§11-1A-29. Requirements for state employees and employees of
designated agents; legislative findings;
modification of existing contract for mass
appraisal; exemption of certain appraisal employees
of tax commissioner from civil service.
Of the whole number of persons engaged in the reappraisement
process, ninety-five percent of all persons employed by the state
and its designated agents in this state to conduct any part of the
reappraisal shall be residents of the state. The Legislature finds
that the process of reappraisement, the acceptance of the results
by the public, and the deeply held attitudes and outlook of the
citizens of the state require, for the success of the
reappraisement and the acceptance of the widespread resulting
adjustments in assessment values, that this stringent requirement
be strictly adhered to, to the end that school revenues and other
local income and taxation have the benefit of the reappraisement as
promptly as possible.

On the effective date of this section, the contract of the
state for mass appraisal of residential properties and other
reappraisal services shall be modified as follows:

(1) To conform with this article; and

(2) To remove from the contract data encoders and other
clerical help, at an aggregate reduction in cost under the contract
of at least three million dollars.

After investigation, the Legislature finds that the contractor
is amenable to the modification of its contract to conform with the requirements of this article. The tax commissioner is directed to
conform such contract to the requirements of this article within
ten days after the effective date of this section.

The data encoders and other clerical employee positions
required to be transferred from the contract to state employment
pursuant to this section, being temporary positions requiring
prompt employment of limited duration are hereby classified exempt
for the purposes of article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.
The tax commissioner is hereby granted plenary authority, subject
only to the supervision of the governor, to determine all terms and
conditions of employment of such employees.